As the author of over a dozen different series, spanning from picture books to easy readers, Adler's works are intended to primarily offer a gateway into reading and history. With over one hundred and seventy five books published in a nearly thirty year career, Adler's wide-ranging oeuvre extends from his reference-oriented picture books to his mystery series for elementary students to his more mature biographies and Jewish historical materials for intermediate readers, providing him with a literary canon flexible enough to transition between preadolescent and teenaged readers. The following entry presents an overview of Adler's career through 2004. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.(Full name David Abraham Adler) American author of picture books, juvenile nonfiction, juvenile biography, riddle books, easy readers, and juvenile and young adult fiction. There's nothing to offend, and everything to recommend.
I recommend this tide for the general book trade, libraries, and the Jewish specialty shops. Like all stories of Chelm, readers of all ages see right through the protagonists' problem, though to inhabitants of Chehn the matter is as opaque and heavy as the failed latkes themselves. There is also a page on the origins of Chanukah, for those readers who don't already know. By the way, the book lets us know exactly what the recipe is-good cooking despite its destruction in actual use by the hero's wife. The "secret recipe" is for latkes (potato pancakes), a traditional dish on Chanukah, and the hero pursues it in the typical inverted-logic fashion of the denizens of Chelm, a real center of Torah knowledge before the Holocaust and the source of many tales of Jewish humor. Illustrations are by Joan Halpern, familiar to marty readers from her work in the near classic The Carp in the Bathtub, by Barbara Cohen.
Adler, wellknown author of the Cwn Jansen series and winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award for The Number on My Grandfather's Arm. This is an enjoyable picture book by David A.
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